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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...
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Flynn, Gillian
1971 -
Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books...
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Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
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